I know this is not the right place for this but english is not my first language.
How is "have" the correct verb here? Shouldn't it be "has"? Like, the crew is the subject, and it has 35 seconds.
I'm trying to understand what I'm missing here, because I'm sure BBC did not make a mistake
'Crew' implies that it is a group of people doing this and therefore they have 35 seconds. You can reconstitute the sentence to check what you should use. In this case you could say in your head:" the crew as a team check the video feed. They have 35 seconds to do this." If this was referring to an individual it would be: "Peter checks the video feed, he has 35 seconds to do this."
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- studies may have picked companies/orgs that are likely to have the foresight and talent to try a new way of working; this may not scale well to general work
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